Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.